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Back to the Baltic / My family as from the 19th century
Karl Adolph then emigrated to Schleswig Holstein and lived in Holstendorf near Ahrensboek. On April 27th 1892 he married Meta Anna Friederike Eickhoff, born Altona near Hamburg (today a suburb of Hamburg).
Her mother Friederike Adelheid Eickhoff born 28.04.1846 was the daughter of the carpenter Ludwig Christian Heinrich Eickhoff born 1814 and his wife Margarethe Baumueller born Bremen 1820.
In the wedding certificate it is stated, that the father of Karl Adolph is nail smith master from Landsberg.
Karl Adolph was a shoemaker at the time of marriage. The couple had eight children:
1) Paul, born 1893.
He had four children with his wife Ida
Siegfried – lives in Duisburg, 2 children Felicitas and Peter
Melitta - emigrated to California
Herbert – emigrated to California, 1 Son
Bruno – lived in Duisburg, + 2005
Lore - lives in Eutin
Juergen – lives in Dormagen
Manfred - lives in Eutin
2) Karl, born 1894 , +1914 in WWI
3) Hans, born 29.09.1895, no children
4) Ferdinand Heinrich born 16.10.1897 in Neudorf/ Eutin +11.11.1988
He married Anna Marie Auguste Bialuch born 03.02.1900 in Moisling
(now a suburb of Lübeck) +1986 . My grandparents.
They had eight children:
Helmut Ferdinand Ernst *09.04.1924 in Barkau near Eutin +23.08.2008 in Berg.Gladbach. My father!
Anneliese * 07.07.1926 in Barkau +2007 in Eutin
Hans * 1928 in Barkau, +2006 in Remscheid
Lieselotte (Bernhard) *24.06.1930(?) in Barkau lives in Eutin
Rolf * 06.11.1932 in Barkau, lives in Bosau near Eutin
Lilly (Galtringer) * ca. 1934 died 2010 in Linz (?) Austria
Albert * ca. 1936 born in Barkau, still lives there
Elke (Hager) * ca 1940 born in Barkau, lives in Lübeck.
5) Hugo
He had three sons. Two were killed in WWII. The third Walter Grawert lives in Lübeck.
6) Dora (Brede) *24.10.1899 died 06.11.1973.
One son, Heinz died already some years ago. No children. Suesel-Barkau.
7) Frieda (Friedrich) *1901, no children
8) Otto * 22.10.1902 (?). No children.
I will leave out my grandmother’s family here. In case of interest, please look into the German text.
The same goes for my grandparents on my mothers side.
I believe this is only interesting for the direct family.
My parents:
My mother Ilse Auguste (Voigt) born 21.03.1927 is the daughter of Wilhelm Voigt *1897 in Sibbersdorf near Eutin ,+1967 in Eutin and Emma (Levermann) *1901 in Kiel + 1986 in Neustadt. My mother now lives in Cologne.
My father Helmut Ferdinand Ernst Grawert was born 09.04.1924 and died 23.08.2008 in Berg. Gladbach. In 1938 (at age 14) he started a traineeship as a blacksmith in Gleschendorf (today: Suesel-Gleschendorf). After his final exam he was drafted into the army in 1942. First into a parachute regiment (two jumps out of a JU 52 in Cologne – Butzweilerhof), than transferred to the 3rd parachute regiment near Blois in France.
From 1944 until the end of the war with the 11th tank division as a driver of an armoured personall carrier, motor bike courier and finally driver of the company commanders car.
(the personal carrier and the motorbike were shot to peaces, but he survived both events).
In his memoirs the company commander wrote:
“At the end of the war, we plundered our remaining food stocks. My driver HelmutGrawert was particularly smart. He did not look for normal food, but took some French Cognac and and about 100 kg of raw coffee beans”.
In the book: Die 11te Panzerdivision (Gespensterdivision) G.Schrodek page 519
(“letzte Aufnahme”) there is a photo of my father. Right hand side, first in the foreground.. He was lucky, that his division managed to leave Czechoslovakia at the end of the war during the night into Bavaria, with American toleration (and supposedly even American fuel) and he became an American PoW.
This was supposedly due to the Commander Lieutenant General von Wietersheim.
He had been relieved of his command at the end of April, but realizing the hopeless situation, still negotiated with the Americans and managed “special conditions” for a capitulation on May 4th. The official commander General Major von Buttlar zu Brandenfels wanted to fight on with a still existing group and could only be persuaded to capitulate on May 14th, a week after the end of the war.
My fathers brother Hans, at that time only 17 years old, who was not far away from where my father was, became a Russian prisoner and returned only in the 1950th.
After the war my father became a truck and later bus driver in Eutin and from the middle of the 1950th in Cologne.
We were four children:
Helmut (myself) born 09.12.1947 in Eutin. Training in Export- and Wholesale Management. 42 years with Bayer AG. Worked some years in the UK and the Netherlands and since 1995 in Singapore. Among other functions, I was Head of Bayer's Asia Pacific Rubber Division and Chairman of the Board of Bayer Malaysia.
Since 2006 I work as an independent consultant.
Married to Anne Elizabeth (Scully) born 26.04.1950 in Townsville / Queensland, Australia. Three children.
Monika (Bartikowski) born 01.08.1949 in Eutin. Commercial training at Dielektra, Porz near Cologne. Worked as a secretary for the German army. Opened a hotel in Muehlberg / Thuringia (where her husbands family came from) in 1990. Nowadays she again lives in Cologneand owns an apartment building. One daughter.
Thomas born 02.07.1955 in Eutin. Died 17.07.2004 in Geesthacht near Hamburg.
He did an apprenticeship as an electrician and later became a bus driver
One son.
Manfred born 15.09.1963 in Porz near Cologne. He is an engineer with Ford and has no children.
And the next generation:
Our daughter Yvonne Susanne (Carroll) born 01.08.1979 in Cologne, works for the Australian diplomatic service, presently stationed in Bangkok, Thailand.
Normally she lives near Canberra. She and her husband Mark have two children:
Bridget Norah *06.05.2008 in Canberra
Liam Alasdair *20.03.2010 in Canberra
Our son Christopher Alan born 29.01.1982 in Bensberg lives in Rommerskirchen, Germany, has a degree in Human Resource Management and works for an international recruiting company. He and his wife Sigrid (Brune) have two children:
Bjoern born 13.09.2008 in Dormagen.
Erik born 08.01.2012 in Dormagen.
Our youngest son Alistair John born in Bensberg 19.05.1989 died on March 15th 2004 of an inflammation of his heart muscle caused by a virus, totally unexpected in his sleep.
My sisters daughter Andrea (Bernd) *14.04.1969 in Porz near Cologne. She still lives there with her husband. She is self employed and works in biology specializing in garden plants and fish. She writes articles for a garden magazine. She has no children.
She supported me with this papers design and photos.
My brothers son Dennis *26.06.1989 is a soldier with the German army.
As he has no children so far, only Bjoern and Erik carry on the direct family line.
With this I have established a chain of ten generations of my direct family!
Sohn von Anneliese: Hans-Werner
As far as I know he has three children, one son (Mario?) and two daughters.
Children of Hans: Marianne,Frank-Dieter, Juergen, Bernd.
I do not know, whether his sons have any children.
Children of Lieselotte (Bernhard): Holger, Petra
Holger has a daughter, Sandra which has three children herself.
Petra has a daughter, Michaela.
Children of Rolf: Reinhard has three daughters ( Miriam, Sarah and Johanna)
Volker has two sons (Thimm, Thiess)
Peter has no children
Children of Lilly (Galtringer): Lilly, Lolita, Lydia, Liane, Roman
I don’t know whether these have children.
Children of Albert : Heike
Children of Elke (Hager): Helge no children
Next follows an overview of Gra(u)wert’s, that have played an important role throughout the last >800 years. This only in the German text. Please look it up there.
There are some additional stories and information I found on the internet:
GERMANIA SACRA, The dioceses of the Church province of Cologne, the diocese Muenster, The cloisters of the Augustin canonicans. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1971, Max Planck institute for history 1971, edited by Wilhelm Kohl:
The cloister of Marienwolde zu Frenswegen.
On January 15th Walter Grawert, Dean at St. Salvator in Utrecht delegated this to the deans of Deventer and Oldenzaal, as he himself lived too far away (This was most likely Wouter Grauwert).
Chronicle of Magdeburg, volume 2:
Since the spring of 1524 Johann Grawert a monk, who escaped from the Augustin cloister at Helmstedt as preached in different places, lately at St. Jacobi. Because of insufficient sources it is difficult to place him, but it can be assumed that he belongs to the radical, reformist spectrum. The reason for this is a report of the “Muehlenvogt” (church advocate) to Cardinal Albrecht, and Huelse and later authors (see: Koch,Zwinglianer page 524, remarks 53-59) put Grawert in a relation with Muenzer.
(Thomas Muenzer was a famous reformist at the time of Martin Luther).
"Grawert said in his sermon last Sunday at St. Jacobi, that the word of God must be spread and safeguarded by shedding blood. As he could see, that the town council would do nothing, it would be up to the congregation to seriously consider, that monks and (catholic) clerics must be beaten up and driven away."
This would not contradict, that Grawert was the instigator of the Magdeburger iconoclasm. That this iconoclasm happened in the presence of mayor Sturm and several councillors and patricians, it may well be assumed, that this was not just a moment of eruptive anger of the citizens.
On 24.06 1524 at the request of mayor Sturm, Luther came to Magdeburg to mediate.
In 1524 Grawert himself almost fell victim to violence as he refused to marry a man who had already fathered another child with another woman out of wedlock.
“ Grawert was almost knifed with a skewer”.
Grawert married the daughter of a councilor from the New Town.
Grauwert, Nicolaes can be seen on a "riflemen’s picture" by Frans Hals from 1639.
Cemetery Graz, Austria : Gravestone of Field Marshall Lt. von Grawert
Baedecker Guidebook from 1861
Margaretha Grawert married Johann Jakob Andreas Hansen in Meldorf, Schleswig Holstein (Hansen familiy geology posted by Greg Bonner).
Friedrich Karl Eduard Grawert (a relative of Martin Grawert) born 1865 was a priest and wrote the “Sermon of the mount according to Matthew”, published 1903 in the Encyclopedica Biblica IV, London “Biblical studies on the web”.
Fritz Grawert: Wrote a book“Quacks in animal health” and could also be the author of “The Pliers” published 1928 by Dr. Grawert, veterinary.
Wilhelm von Grawert is mentioned under “Members of the German Airforce 1914-1918” (www.frontflieger.de).
Justus Grawert, Lieutenant, Captain of U 750 from 01.09.1944 – 05.05.1945
(scuttled in the firth of Flensburg). U 750 was produced in Germany, sold to the Italian marine (S 9) and returned to Germany after Italy capitulated. U 750 never saw any action, as it was used for training purposes only.
Heeresgruppe B, 10.June 1940, 16th Army:
Along the road to Sommau the the battallion comes under heavy machine gun fire and suffers heavy losses. Lt.von Grawert, Chief of Kp.3 is killed.
At cloister Knechtsteden near Dormagen on the soldiers cemetery lies Wilhelm Grawert,
1913-1944. Found just by chance, as my son lives nearby.